JBC - Ethiopia Tebe Melge Natural 340g

Light

Plush

Bright, Sweet-Tart

Strawberry, Peach Nectar, Blue Raspberry, Vanilla

This coffee comes from smallholder farmers growing coffee in the highest reaches of Guji’s vast Uraga forest region. It is everything we love about a beautifully done natural process coffee with bright strawberry, peach, blue raspberry, passion fruit, and vanilla notes. It is elegant yet approachable, ultra fruity yet clean and not over processed. If you are looking for the sparkling fruit notes that often accompany a natural process coffee with out the ferment/process-forward notes, this coffee is for you.

Our Tebe Melge is grown between 1900-2300 meters in a microclimate that is optimum for coffee growing with long, cool nights that slow cherry maturation, leading to complex fruit notes and increased sweetness. Near the Yirgacheffe region, this coffee was once trucked over the border to be sold as Yirgacheffe coffee. Over a decade a go, however, Aleco Chigounis (co-founder of Red Fox Coffee Merchants and our partner in sourcing this coffee) tasted the coffees of Guji and knew they were unique and deserving of differentiation. Now this region is world-famous for producing some of the world’s best coffees.